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Chapter 87. Corporate Deep Freeze
The night felt wrong from the first minute. Landon Hale stood on a rooftop overlooking the lower east sector. Wind pushed cold air across broken streets. Neon signs flickered like tired eyes. The city was restless, breathing in fast, shallow gasps. It felt like the whole place was waiting for something painful.Jin’s voice trembled through the comm. “Landon, I am seeing strange signals. I have never seen this pattern before. It is moving between networks like ice spreading on water.”Claire’s tone sharpened “What kind of pattern?”“Cold. Slow. Infectious. And it is heading straight for Syndicate-era biotech implants.”Landon stiffened. “You think Dominion is doing this?”Jin answered quietly. “I know they are.”The night suddenly felt colder. Down below, crowds moved through the streets. Workers heading home. Civilians gathering supplies. People trying to pretend their world was not collapsing. None of them knew death was already creeping through the digital veins of the city.Lando
Chapter 86. Scales And Steel
The city screamed long before the people did. Landon Hale heard the first blast from three blocks away. The ground shook beneath his boots, and a deep roar rolled across the plaza like thunder trapped inside a cage. Dust rose between the buildings. Windows rattled. Car alarms burst to life one after another, screaming over each other until the noise became a wall of panic.Marcus looked up from his rifle scope. “That came from the central plaza. Something big.”Claire’s voice cut through their comms, sharp and tense. “I’m picking up emergency reports. People are running. Something’s attacking the square, and it’s not Dominion.”Landon’s stomach tightened. He already knew. Wolfe had made his move.Jin shouted from the safehouse connection. “It’s Scalebreaker! Wolfe just unleashed him in broad daylight!”Marcus whispered a curse. “That monster again.”Landon was already moving, sprinting toward the smoke. “We stop him. Now.”“Wait,” Claire called, but he had cut the line. He knew she
Chapter 85. Dominion’s Hostile Takeover
Morning light slid across the city like a slow blade, touching glass towers and old brick shops, touching empty streets where people waited without speaking. A bit of wind blew loose paper across the pavement. It felt like the whole city was holding its breath for something it could not stop.Landon Hale felt it too. He stood beside Claire and Marcus on the rooftop of an abandoned parking tower. From there they could see the giant digital billboard above downtown. It was normally filled with bright ads and flashing deals. But today the screen was black, like an eye waiting to open.Jin’s voice came through their earpieces, sharp and uneasy. “Here it comes. Dominion is pushing the announcement live. I just traced the data spike.”A soft electrical hum filled the air. The billboard flickered. The screen flashed white. Then Aether Dominion’s golden emblem appeared, two rings wrapped around a vertical spear of light.A cold, stern voice began to speak across the whole city through every
Chapter 84. Street Siege of District Seven
The sky over District Seven looked bruised, as if the clouds themselves were scared of what waited below. Smoke drifted through the streets. Windows trembled from distant explosions. The whole district felt like it was holding its breath before something terrible burst open.Landon Hale stood at the end of a narrow street, watching a line of Wolfe’s soldiers march past a shattered row of shops. Their armor glowed with faint red veins that pulsed like angry hearts. Their helmets had no visors, only smooth white plates that made them look like ghosts preparing to take a neighborhood apart piece by piece.Claire crouched behind a broken car beside him. Her grip on her rifle was tight, and her voice was low. “This is not an attack. This is a takeover.”Navarro scanned the rooftops with cold eyes. “He is pushing for full control of the district. If he owns this place, he controls half the city’s economy.”Jin tapped his tablet rapidly, his hands shaking from the stress. “I am tracking en
Chapter 83. The Black Data Vault
Night settled over the city like a slow, heavy blanket, pressing its weight on every rooftop and every dark street. The biotech greenhouse on the west edge of Milwaukee glowed with a soft green light that seemed peaceful from far away, but the Vanguard knew better. Nothing about this place was peaceful. Nothing was safe here. It was a mask, and Jin was the one who tore that mask apart.He stood at the edge of the greenhouse, holding his tablet close to his chest as lines of code flickered across the screen like frantic fireflies. The glow reflected in his glasses, making his eyes look sharper than usual, and the tension in his jaw showed how serious he was.“This is it,” Jin whispered. “The readings are too clean. That is not a greenhouse. It is a door.”Landon Hale moved closer, feeling the night wind brush across his face. The air smelled of wet leaves and something faintly metallic. Claire stood on his left, silent but focused, with her small earpiece blinking steadily. Navarro
Chapter 82. Collapse of the Old Guard
The city woke to a strange kind of silence. It was the kind that came after a shock, after thousands of people checked their phones and saw the same headline drifting across every screen. Syndicate-owned corporations, once giants towering over Milwaukee’s skyline, were crashing like brittle towers of sand. Stock charts dipped in sharp red lines. Workers flooded the streets with hollow eyes. And above all of it, the cold silver logo of Aether Dominion flashed on digital billboards like a warning.Landon Hale stood on the balcony of their safehouse, watching smoke curl from a distant rooftop where angry crowds had set fire to a Syndicate recruitment office. The flame flickered against the early gray sky. Shouting spread across the blocks below. Somewhere glass shattered. Somewhere else a siren wailed and then cut off.Claire stepped beside him and leaned on the railing. Her breath clouded in the chilly air.“It’s starting,” she said quietly.Landon nodded but kept his eyes on the str
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